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New Orleans Saints believe they will be able to handle cap issues

this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; We will prevail. Leave it to loomis and payton. Bet we put a winning team together for a while.we have the base put in we just need to tinker with a few good men....

Seriously... Do any of you think that Loomis only looks at this year to year? He would have been fired long ago if he only planed one year at a time. The plan is already in place, certain portions of it are just in pencil for the time being.

You don't have this kind of contract demand every year, Oak. But Loomis had no choice but to re-sign his franchise QB, and so here we are. Anyone with common sense knew the minute that deal was signed it was going to be a complicated process to fit the rest of the team under the cap, without losing a bunch of players. Of course he'll get us under the cap, he has no choice, but I want to see just how much can be done to fix our problems while trying to cut cost at the same time.

It WILL definitely be up to Drew to give in a little to make it work. I don't see how that's being brutal on him. It's just a fact.

Don't the new increased TV deals kick in this year?
I thought the extensions run from the start if the 2013 season meaning the cap should have been higher.Or are the league/owners are trying to build up a slush fund for when they loose the case with former players.

Don't the new increased TV deals kick in this year?
I thought the extensions run from the start if the 2013 season meaning the cap should have been higher.Or are the league/owners are trying to build up a slush fund for when they loose the case with former players.

The TV deals won't have an affect on the cap until next year (2014), but there's still a lot of debate whether or not they will actually have as strong of an affect as some have suggested (~$140M).

Some cap analysts have stated that the cap will remain about the same (~$126M) in coming years, since the cap was artificially elevated earlier and in a sense the teams were borrowing salary cap room from the coming years.

So, I'm not sure if the teams' front offices even know what the cap will be in the coming years, and that'll surely make their job a lot more harder.

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